PVT Alphus C. Robey

courtesy of Doc Wilson

PVT Alphus C. Robey was born 5 Jan 1895 in Alexandria, Virginia the 3rd of 6 children of Alpheus and Anne Elizabeth (Miller) Robey.  His father was a waterman and Alphus followed him into that work. The family lived at 114 Duke Street in Alexandria.

Alphus enlisted in G Company 1st Virginia Infantry and served on the Mexican border and was then one of those men assigned D Company 1st Virginia before it was reorganized as part of H Company 116th Infantry.  He trained with H Company at Camp McClellan and Anniston, Alabama.  He sailed with the unit from Hoboken, New Jersey with H Company on 15 Jun 1918 aboard the USS Finland.  PVT Robey was accidentally shot and killed on 25 Jul 1918. 

PVT Robey was repatriated and re-interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

Older brother, Walter Everett Robey, served as a PFC in H Company with Alphus. Walter died in 1958 and is buried in Alexandria National Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia.

PVT Enos D. Lewis

PVT Enos D. Lewis was born about 1890 likely in Henrico County, Virginia.  He was a member of B Company 116th Infantry when he died of disease on 7 Jul 1918.

PVT Lewis is buried in Riverview Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.

PVT Robert LeRoy Quinn

courtesy of Frogman

PVT Robert LeRoy Quinn was born 2 Nov 1919 in Waterloo, Iowa. He was the 4th of 5 children born to Leonard Cyril and Gertrude I. (Worthen) Quinn. His father worked as farm labor and then as a machinist. His mother died of uterine cancer in 1930. His father would not remarry until 1936. In 1940 the family lived at 1253 Logan Avenue in Waterloo for which they paid $30 a month rent. By then Robert was also working in a factory and then for John Deere. On 15 Mar 1941 he married Audrey May Davis. They would have a son in January 1943.

Robert was drafted in October 1943. He trained at Camp Roberts, California and was able to get a 14-day furlough to go home and see his family before being sent to the European theater. He was transferred from the replacement depot to C Company 116th Infantry on 16 Jun 1944 where he served as a rifleman. PVT Quinn was killed in action on 6 Jul 1944. 

PVT Quinn now rests in the Normandy American Cemetery.

His brother, PVT Donald Francis Quinn, was serving with the 401st Glider Infantry Regiment when he was killed in action on 2 Feb 1945. He is buried in the Netherlands American Cemetery. The youngest of the family, Earl Joseph Quinn, served as an FC3c in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Davison (DD618) .

PVT Howard Francis Doucette

PVT Howard Francis Doucette was born 25 Jul 1899 in Somerville, Massachusetts to William James and Clara Flora (Warner) Doucette.  His father was a house painter who died in 1907 of kidney disease. After his father's death, his mother worked as a chambermaid in the college dorms and as a domestic/house servant.

It would seem that there is some confusion about Howard's service.  He apparently served with the 104th Infantry, 26th Division and may have enlisted with that unit at the onset of the war because it was local to his residence.  PVT Doucette was killed in action on 6 Jul 1918.

PVT Doucette is buried in Aisne-Marne American Cemetery.  Brothers, William Clyde Doucette and Arthur Frederick Doucette, also served in the Army during the war. 

PVT Doucette is listed here because he was reported by then MAJ Hierome Opie in the "official" history of the regiment in the war as dying in service with the regiment.  However, there are no other records found to date that indicate that he was assigned to any other unit than E Company 104th Infantry.